31.   Alf is determined never to lose touch with his friends again.

32.   Mrs Murchie was recently contacted by a woman in Canada who had lost touch with her son after he left the British army.

33.   Through its network the Red Cross manages to connect people who might otherwise have lost touch forever.

34.   THE Government was yesterday accused of losing touch with the rapid rate of mental hospital closures.

35.   They have lost touch with what is happening and hospital beds are being closed before alternative beds and day care are set up in the community.

36.   In some cases, groups that are too closely targetted on short-term management objectives lose touch with the scientific community and longer-term thinking.

37.   You never lose a touch.

38.   Along with the need to look at or touch a public pooch, the sight of an animal often causes people to lose touch with reality.

39.   And almost any journalist is sensitive to the possibility that too much cynicism may cause him to lose touch with his audience.

40.   And in the process, some say, a generation lost touch with the power of oratory.